RE: Excess23 Dec 2022 16:36
The focus of all the green homes/ sustainable warmth initiatives sponsored by BEIS is 'fabric first' i.e. to stop the leakage of all that expensive heat in the first place. (check out LAD/ HUG and ECO4 schemes)
Within these schemes the objective is an assessment of measures needed to improve ventilation, the lack of which is often a primary cause of damp and attendant mould that so tragically appears to have resulted in the death of a toddler and the latest political football for Michael Gove to show his concern about.
As someone with some knowledge of the subject, the government is taking the right approach to this at last however Mr Shapps demonstrating the use of a draught stopper reminiscent of visiting your granny 50 years ago, is hardly the correct message to be sending to those that have insufficient airflow that would keep the humidity level below the dew point but perhaps he is able to better afford to keep the ambient temperature of his gaff sufficiently elevated.